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[Mito]

I've got a few updates to put on but I haven't found a good/easy way to compress the photos so that they can be uploaded to this site.

 

I managed to get the boot floor to meet up to the rear arch much better than in the last pics. Clamping the floor to the rear quarter took up most of the gap. I think it also took a bit of hammering and reshaping of the bottom of the rear arch to close the gap up a bit. The inside rear corner of the arch where it meets the boot floor was also holding the floor off and had to be reshaped slightly. Once I got it close enough, I then put a seam weld across the rear bottom edge of the arch and the boot floor and plug welded the rear quarter lip to the boot floor.

 

The better way to close the gap with the rear valance and the closing plate would be to fabricate a small piece to take it up to the edge of the valance. I on the other hand, filled it with weld and then ground it back, rather effective I thought but using a piece of sheet metal would have been soo much easier.

 

 

[Jamez26]

Thanks for the info Mito and look forward to your updates

[Mito]

Frontend welded.

 

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Lining up the a-panels with the doors.

 

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Grinding back some of the welds at the rear end.

 

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Put a seam weld along the heal board to closing plate.

 

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Tidying up welds around the wheel arch.

 

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Plug welding the bottom of the wheel arch to boot floor.

 

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Put in a little patch where the metal had got a bit thin due to rust.

 

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Welding in the repair panel on the o/s rear quarter.

 

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Starting repairing the doors. Took the skin off. Bit of a mess around the edges. The rust was all cut out.

 

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New metal being welded in.

 

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Epoxy primed the inside of the doors and the new skins.

 

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Lined up the doors.

 

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Starting to prep for painting.

 

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The paint prep is now finished but haven't taken any photos yet. I'll take some today before the primer starts going on :)

 

[johnR]

You're getting closer to the finishline of your epic marathon- well done. have you been restoring the parts to bolt back on as you go or leaving those 'til the shell is finished? 

[Mito]

You're getting closer to the finishline of your epic marathon- well done. have you been restoring the parts to bolt back on as you go or leaving those 'til the shell is finished? 

 

I've had the front subframe shot blasted and powder coated and have binned the rear subframe as it was too far gone, so will be buying a new one.

 

I've been stripping the other parts down when I've not been able to work on the shell and pretty much have to just treat the rust on them and repaint before re-assembly. The bearings for the front top arms are proving to be a pita to remove though. I've also been looking at may be buying a bench shot blasting cabinet to remove the rust as they don't appear to be too expensive and will make it easier to clean up the parts.

[colinf1]

The bearings for the front top arms are proving to be a pita to remove though

If you don't have the bearing removal tool, this chap shows how to do it with a ground down washer.

https://youtu.be/0U83AVdEz2o

[Maccmike8]

 

The bearings for the front top arms are proving to be a pita to remove though

If you don't have the bearing removal tool, this chap shows how to do it with a ground down washer.

https://youtu.be/0U83AVdEz2o

 

 

Wonderful idea.

[Mito]

 

The bearings for the front top arms are proving to be a pita to remove though

If you don't have the bearing removal tool, this chap shows how to do it with a ground down washer.

https://youtu.be/0U83AVdEz2o

 

 

I'll give that a go!

[Mito]

Masked up some of the car ready for priming underneath.

 

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Underneath is now in primer. The first attempt was a bit of a disaster with sags in the paint everywhere (no photos!). I put this down to a combination of poor gun set up and poor technique.

 

The second attempt went much better. I got a couple of sags on the boot where I was trying to get the gun/paint in behind the wheel well and rear valance. Other than that though, it went much better and it's now the underneath is primed and seam sealed. 

 

Saggy!

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A bit of flatting and keying and ready for stone chip and top coat.

Edited by Mito, 10 May 2021 - 08:25 AM.

[Mito]

Today I painted the underneath. It seems to have gone fairly well. Not a run in sight!

 

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[Mito]

After painting the underneath, the car was left on the spit for a couple of weeks to allow the paint to harden.

 

The car has now been taken off of the spit and is sat on axle stands and wooden battens.

 

After a couple of more weekends cleaning the car down, hoovered more times than it ever was when it was on the road and panel wiped, the car was ready for some epoxy primer.

 

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There are a few sags in places, that I will sand out - still haven't find the right technique for this, the car is now fully epoxy primed.

[Mito]

Almost forgot, before priming, I drilled the holes for the wheel arches and the works lamp bar.

 

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[Mito]

I was struggling to reach the roof properly when spraying it, I'm not the tallest, so bought a work platform from Screwfix. Then got on with spraying some high build primer on all the of visible sections, outside, inside of the doors, A & B pillars, cross member, dash rails, and the rear bins.

 

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Next job will be to put some stone chip on the outside of the toe board and the rear arches, then some colour in the engine bay, boot, and rear arches of course.

[Mito]

Today, I got on with spraying the boot, engine bay, and both rear arches.

 

Engine bay all nice and shiny red...

 

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Some runs, but they'll buff out 

 

One of the rear arches, all stone chipped and shiny red...

 

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The boot all shiny red...

 

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A closer look at the shiny red boot...

 

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The offside of the boot...

 

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The near side of the boot...

 

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Happy with that.

 

Next weekends job, or possibly the weekend after - stag do getting in the way, will be sanding down and spraying the inside of the car.

[Mito]

The inside of the car is now sprayed. 

 

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Then, after a lot of sanding, I gave the areas where I had burned through a quick coat of epoxy mastic and then another couple of coats of high build primer.

 

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Got a few runs in the primer and paint, so the next job is to sand down the primer and sand out the runs in the paint. Once this is done, I'll then give the inside another coat before moving onto the outside.

 

Getting there!